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"Best not drop the baby!" How many first-time dads have heard this joke and inwardly groaned. After all, in today's modern world, surely Dads are as well-equipped as Mums to handle the pressures of full-time parenting. It is with this thought that Laurence Dolan's new play, Daddy's Home, opens.

In what starts as a fast-paced comedy, Bruce (Aaron Ward), a first time father, is left holding the baby when his lawyer wife Rebecca (Li-Ming Hu) goes back to work. Proving that nothing is cuter than an earnest dad, he infiltrates the world of career mums - a world that is not so much oestrogen-rich as oestrogen saturated. But this play avoids cheap laughs at incompetent dads. Bruce is able not only to efficiently handle the messy baby side of things with less fuss than the average first-time mum, he also cooks, cleans and reads childcare manuals. In short, he appears to be the perfect man - even showing sympathy to oversensitive and dominating Rebecca, who is caught between her maternal instincts and career drive. [More]
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